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New Stuff This Week
Yes, but do you have the new issue of Vice? Apology #2 Sum 13 $18.00
Arthur #35 Aug 13 $5.00
N Plus 1 #17 Fall 13Zines
Cheer The Eff Up #5 by Jonas $3.00
Artificial Landscapes by Katie Shlon $10.00
Rochester Teenset Outsider #25 $1.00
Under the Radar: Notes From the Wild Mushroom Trade by Olivier Matthon (Pioneers Press) $5.00
Xerography Debt #33 (Microcosm) $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies.
Oatmeal Tears #1 and #2 by Tim Miller $2.00 each
Spunk #9 by Aaron Tilford $9.00
Sick Sunny: My Journey to a Gluten Free Lifestyle by Brijid Somaodji Landis & Rebecca M. Zec (Microcosm) $3.00
Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: 13 Images of Food Drama by Automne Zingg (Microcosm) $6.00
Crawl #7 Tips Tricks Traps $3.95
Recoup #1 Music Magazine $9.00
City For Sale $10.00
Proof I Exist #16 Jun 13 by Billy $2.00 – Billy of Loop Distro stranded us in Chicago to go be a dealer. And by that, we mean a card dealer in New Mexico.Comics & Comix
All Star Motherfuckin Roids by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $6.00
Laskimooses #12 Eri Huonoja Enteita by Herra Matt Hagelbergin $7.00
Sin #1 The Beating of the Drums by AJ Fulcher and Jospeh Canave $4.00
Justice Angel vol 1 #1 A New Hero For Justice in New York by Tiffany Dang, Valerie Boris and Caleb Meeker $4.99
Beatrice by Brett Manning $5.00
Eve and Eve #1 an Alt Universe by Caitlin Yates $7.00
Mysticism of Work $2.00
Jelly and Toast issues #1-#3 Tim Miller $2.00 each
Cartoonshow #2 Your Daughters Will Bear Our Children by Derek M. Ballard (Drippy Bone Books) $6.00
Galactic Breakdown #5 part 2 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Collects issues 1 – 3 of the New Tales of Old Palomar Ignatz Series.
Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories (EC Comics Library Collection) by Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $28.99
Sunday Comics by Gahan Wilson (Fantagraphics) $29.99
March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $14.95
Smile by Raina Telgemeier $10.99
Girl Genius vol 2 Agatha Heterodyne and the Airship City by Phil & Kaja Foglio (Airship Entertainment) $22.95 – Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance, and Mad Science.
One Trick Rip Off and Deep Cuts by Paul Pope $19.99 – Now in trade paperback.
Map of Days by Robert Hunter (Nobrow) $18.95
Biografiktion by Ana Albero, Till Hafenbrak et al. (Nobrow) $29.00Art & Design
Burgermat Show Poster and Recipe Book (Nobrow) $24.95
World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter $35.00
Pigs Disco by Stuar t Griffiths $30.95
Stages of Decay of Julia Solis (Prestel) $34.95 – More ruin porn. Add to your collection.Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Classic Book of Rude Jokes: Crass Humor for the Discriminating Jokester by Scott McNeely $10.95
God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannan Wheeler (Top Shelf) $19.95
Twisted Toonage: The Fluffer Handbook – Warning Deliciously Offensive by April Goldenberg $5.00
Electrified Sheep: Chimpanzee Butlers and Monkey Maids, Adventures in Self-Surgery Glass Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon and More Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese $15.99
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett $16.99
Places Weve Been: Field Reports From Travelers Under 35 by Asha Veal Brisebois $17.95
The Happy Atheist by PZ Meyers $24.00
My 1980s and Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum $16.00
The Culinary Cyclist: A Cookbook and Companion for the Good Life by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall (Elly Blue Publishing) $9.95Politics & Revolution
Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams, Will Munger and Glavin Lara Messersmith (AK Press) $21.00Druuuuuuuugs
Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana Medical Recreational & Scientific by Martin A. Lee $18.00 – Now in soft cover.Fiction
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin (McSweeneys) $22.00
Steel Tsar: Nomad of the Time Streams Novel 3 by Michael Moorcock $9.95 – In this version of history the Axis and the Allies teamed up against Japan. We always need Moor Cock in our our lives. (See what I did there? -Liz).
Collection Short Fiction From the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Leger $19.95
His Wife Leaves Him by Steve Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99Kids Stuff
Patrick Eats His Peas and Other Stories by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon) $12.95
Ottos Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch (Toon) $12.95Magazines
Got a Girl Crush #2 $15.00
Love Magazine #10 $17.99
Little White Lies #48 $12.99Other Stuff & Notable Restocks
Turntable Kitchen Timer $14.00 – Be a mixmaster food general.
Restock of blank journals from Buy Olympia, artists like Nikki McClure & Eloise Renouf.
Everyday Magic 2014 Calendar by Apak (Little Otsu) $14.00
Panda Critter Hub 3 Port USB & Squirrel Critter Hub 3 Port USB $20.00 each.
Tons of new cards and postcards, plus a restock of Dark & Somber Black Metal Greeting cards.
various issues of Caboose.
Let Gluten Freedom Ring: Vegan Gluten Free Recipe Zine by Adam Gnade $4.00
Scam #9 Fall 12 Damaged: The Story of Black Flag’s Classic First Album by Erick Lyle $3.00
Do It Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin Sad by Adam Gnade $6.00
Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag $5.00
Support Independent Publishing Sticker $1.00
Reading is Sexy Button $1.50
What Would Devo Do Sticker $1.00
Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander by Marie Kanger Born $22.00 -
David Moscovich You Are Make Very Important Bathtime Release Event With Eckhard Gerdes 9/13
David Moscovich’s new book, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime (JEF Books Publishing), is about an expatriate in a foreign land and his failure to navigate the awkward seas of extreme culture clash. Set in Southern Japan, it is a celebration of the beauty of misunderstanding and the inadvertent poetry of bad grammar.
“A wild and enlivening collection of stories that capture the comedy, chaos and uncertainty of living as an alien in a place just beyond one’s understanding. Moscovich is a daring writer, and this book, both preposterous and beautiful, is an unusual demonstration of talent.”
-Michael Thomsen, author of Levitate The Primate
David Moscovich writes flash fiction and performs his texts both live and on the radio, fragmenting, ricocheting, and refurnishing language until it meets its own devolution. He lives with chronic insomnia in New York City and runs Louffa Press, a micro-press dedicated to printing innovative fiction.
Also reading: novelist Eckhard Gerdes read from his first published book of poetry, 23 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems (Finishing Line Press) and from his short novella The Sylvia Plath Cookbook (published by Sugar Glider Press in Queensland, Australia). Eckhard Gerdes is the author of 14 published novels, including My Landlady the Lobotomist and Hugh Moore. He lives in Geneva, Illinois, and is the publisher of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and JEF Books.
For more info:
egerdes(at)experimentalfiction(dot)com
Friday, September 13, 7pm – Free Event
Light refreshments will be served
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Maureen Foley Reads, with Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson 9/5
Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography as Quimby’s showcases three of MMMarvelous writers at Quimby’s on Thursday, September 5th. Local authors Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson will be reading from their new books, the respective Long Live Us and Sad Robot Stories; and headlining the evening will be California author Maureen Foley, in town to promote her female relationship dramedy Women Float. All three authors will be available for signing books afterwards. We hope you will be able to join us for this MMMost enjoyable evening!
Maureen Foley is a writer and artist who lives on an avocado ranch by the sea in Southern California with her daughter, stepson and husband, writer James Claffey. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Caesura, The New York Times, Santa Barbara Magazine, Skanky Possum and elsewhere. [maureenfoley.com]
Mason Johnson is a writer from Chicago who currently works full time writing and editing articles for CBS. Also, he pets all the cats. [themasonjohnson.com]
Mark R. Brand is the author of the novels Red Ivy Afternoon (2006), Life After Sleep (2011), and The Damnation of Memory (2011), as well as the editor of the 2009 anthology Thank You, Death Robot. He is a two-time Independent Publisher Book Award winner and is the creator and host of the video podcast series Breakfast With the Author. [vinniethevole.com]
For more info, visit cclapcenter.com or write cclapcenter(at)gmail(dot)com
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New Stuff This Week
Violence, erotica and horror were popular even in 19th century Japan, as evidenced by the Ukiyo-E art-form. These mass produced “images from the floating world” include weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters. Stock up on these art books while they’re still in stock and in print. We suggest these titles published by Shinbaku Books: Outlaw Swords of Death: Warrior & Hero Designs 1825-45 By Utagawa Kuniyoshi $39.95 Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-E: Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoo $39.95 Night Parade of Hell: Creatures Bizarre Demonic Art by Kawanabe Kyosai $34.95
Zines
Cervical Mucus and Your Fertility by Kione $1.50
Impractical Cartography #1 Buffalo NY $15.00
Pride Inside Zine From Queer Folks Incarcerated in Illinois, issues #1 and #2 $6.00 each
I Hate Mondays #3 Chicago $2.00
Cheap and Easy #1 by Hutch Hutchinson $10.00
Two Girls One Brain $1.00Comics & Comix
Crass Sophisticate #31 The Poo Is True $3.00
various comics by Chris Uphues, various prices
Laudanum Thief vol 1 by Mason Dickerson $5.00
Wolves in Sheeps Clothing vol 1 by Chris Rietman and and April Guinn (Broken Teeth Dreaming) $5.00
Lower East Side Story issues #1-3 by Pete Friedrich $4.75 eachGraphic Novel & Trade Paperbacks
Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren et al. $24.99
Fagin the Jew: A Reinvention of Dickenss Classic Character by Will Eisner (Dark Horse) $19.99
Crossed vol 6 by Garth Ennis et al. $24.99
Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America with Pete Friedrich, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Martin Cendreda, Gilbert Hernandez and more $22.95Art & Design
Incurable Disorder by Elizabeth McGrath (Last Gasp) $39.95 – For fans of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, and Camille Rose Garcia.
First Ten Years of Needles and Pens by Andrew Scott Martin $12.00 – People ask us if there are other stores we would suggest for cool reading material. Why yes! Have you been to Needles and Pens in San Francisco? Well here’s an oral and pictoral history that proves they’ve been around for at least 10 years. P.S. We do also have some links about Quimby’s-ish stores on our newly updated links page.
Nice Coffee Time by Liz Clayton (Tiny Person) $14.95 – An art boook dedicated to the nectar of the caffeine gods.Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Secret Origins of the Crass Symbol by Dave King $12.00
Animals Talking In All Caps: It’s Just What It Sounds Like by Justin Valmassoi $15.00 – From the author of Rosario Dawson loves me zine.
Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman $15.95 – Hey have you heard the news? Scientologists are crazy! Now in soft cover.
Constantine Affliction: A Pimm & Skye Adventure by Aaron T. Payton (Night Shade) $14.99
American Indian Medicine Dreambook by Brad Steiger $19.95
Midwest Hauntings by Lee Prosser $14.99 – Planning your next road trip? Perhaps we might suggest these sites? We also just got in a Ghost Hunters Tool Kit you can bring with you.
Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield $25.99 – From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.DIY
Bake and Destroy: Good Food For Bad Vegans by Natalie Slater $19.99
Kids Stuff
Anna and Froga: I Dunno What Do You Want To Do by Anouk Ricard (D+Q) $14.95
Squirrel We Call Sneakers by Shawn Rainbolt et al. $5.99
True Adventures of Foamy and Leafy by Pete Friedrich $2.75Fiction
Scarce Resources: 18 Weird Stories by Brendan Detzner $10.00
Elect H Mouse State Judge by Nelly Reifler $11.00
Terminal Atrocity Zone by J.G. Ballard, ed. by Candice Black (Sun Vision) $15.95Sex & Sexy
Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel $15.95
Down and Dirty: 69 Super Sexy Short Shorts ed. by Alison Tyler $15.95
High Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women ed. by Delilah Devlin $15.95Magazines
Zingmagazine #23 $30.00
Juxtapoz #152 Sep 13 $5.99
Design Bureau Aug 13 $8.00
American Atheist 3rd Quarter 13 $4.95
Neural #45 $8.00
Bizarre #204 Sep 13 $10.50
Skunk vol 9 #2 $5.99
High Times Oct 13 $5.99
Color Skateboards Sum 13 vol 11 #2 $7.99
Pinstriping #39 Kustom Graphics Magazine Aug Sep 13 $10.00
Howler #3 Sum 13 $15.00
Maximumrocknroll #363 Aug 13 $4.00
Monocle Mediterraneo #7 Sum 13 $8.00
ASR #60 Sum 13 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Progressive Aug 13 $4.95
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
N+1 #17 Fall 13 $13.95
Camera Obscura vol 6 Spr 13 $12.95
Greenwoman vol 3 #1 Sum Fall 13 $5.95
Specimen Magazine #6 $6.00Other Stuff
The Mermaid Tarot Deck by Dame Darcy $40.00 – The mostest beautiful tarot deck ever from the artist of Meatcake. Sea-shantirifc!
The Believer Box of Bad Advice Game: Mixed-up Advice From Messed Up People $14.95 – Everybody’s favorite clever McSweeneyNPRians are here: Eggers, Sedaris – you get the idea.
Crickettes Bacon and Cheese $2.50 – You know how all the former vegetarians say that what called them back to meat was bacon? What about pig-flavored crickets? Also Salt’N’Vinegar flavor available. Eat up!
Blood Red Soap $1.25 – Wanna freak your guests out? This soap looks normal until you use it, then it turns red. Bwahahahaha.
Scorpion Suckers $3.99 – People love the look of bugs in amber. That shit sells. What about making it look like amber but have it be sugar? And edible. Eat your words, people! In a variety of delicious flavors: apple, banana, blueberry and strawberry.
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Peter Bagge Presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 10/19
On Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly for an evening with cartoonist Peter Bagge to celebrate the launch of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, a dazzling, accessible biography of the activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist who founded Planned Parenthood. Bagge will be presenting a slideshow focusing on Sanger’s social and political activism and how Woman Rebel came together, sharing original sample pages from his book.Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story presents the life of the outspoken, driven Margaret Sanger from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s legacy is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.
About Peter Bagge:
Peter Bagge was born on December 11th, 1957, and raised in Peekskill, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. While enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1977, Bagge discovered underground comics, and the work of R. Crumb in particular turned what had initially been only a vague interest in cartooning into a passion.
In the early ’80s Bagge co-published three issues of COMICAL FUNNIES (1980-81), a New York-based comic tabloid which saw the debut of Bagge’s dysfunctional suburban family, The Bradleys. Bagge broke into R. Crumb’s legendary magazine, WEIRDO, and Bagge took over as managing editor of that magazine from 1983 to 1986.
Bagge started his own comic book series, NEAT STUFF, for Fantagraphics Books, producing 15 issues from 1985 to ’89. Buddy Bradley, the Bradleys’ alienated and pessimistic teenage son, emerged as Neat Stuff’s most engaging and fully-realized character. In 1990, NEAT STUFF evolved into a new title, HATE, which exclusively followed the foibles of the semi-autobiographical Buddy Bradley. Hate became the voice of the twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant characterization in its complete chronicle of the 1990s. HATE and Buddy Bradley continue to appear in print, albeit less frequently, under the title HATE ANNUAL.
Since 1999, Bagge has worked on many other comic-related projects, including writing an all ages comic book for DC called YEAH! (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez). as well as the short lived humor series SWEATSHOP, also for DC. He also wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and has done the same with Marvel’s The Hulk, though the later title has yet to be scheduled for release. Other projects include a 2 year stint writing and drawing a weekly comic strip about
Bat Boy
for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, and a series of illustrated essays for the now defunct website Suck.com, which led to his becoming a current regular features contributor to the political and social commentary magazine REASON. Also, comic APOCALYPSE NERD was collected into a graphic novel, published Dark Horse.Bagge’s exaggerated and distinctively in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and in magazines as far ranging as HUSTLER, MAD and the OXFORD AMERICAN. He’s also had a hand in several animation projects, most notably the online
Rock & Roll Dad
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Quimby’s Welcomes Black & Brown Press’ On Struggling Issue #3 with Guest Readers Stephanie Camba, Jonas Cannon and Mercedez Gonzalez
In the latest issue of On Struggling by the Brown & Proud Press, the theme of bodies is explored through a collaboration of short stories, poetry, comics and drawings. Receiving submissions from across the country, this zine exemplifies the complexities of body issues for people of color, covering topics such as self-hatred and skin color, chronic pain/illness, fatphobia, colonialism and assimilation, sexual abuse, and more. With the goal of reaching out to people of color with similar issues, the zine juxtaposes stories of struggle with stories of survival, including Ode to Survival in this Great Wide World by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, and Historically Struggling Bodies of POC and Even More Work to be Holistic Allies by Mika Munoz.
“We believe sharing these stories with and amongst other people of color helps to dismantle the isolation and shame that white supremacy [colonialism, capitalism] creates, and replaces them with support, strength, and communities of care” – Monica Trinidad, co-founder of Brown & Proud Press
As well as being sold at Quimby’s in Chicago and Bluestockings in New York, On Struggling is also distributed through Brown Recluse Zine Distro (Seattle), twelveohtwo Distro (Toronto), and No Shame Distro (New Brunswick), and archived with POC Zine Project and the University of Chicago library. Brown & Proud Press was also recently invited to participate in the Zine Pavilion section of the American Library Association’s 2013 Conference, highlighting the noteworthiness of self-published works.
For more info visit: onstruggling.tumblr.com or email brownandproudpress(at)gmail(dot)com
Friday, September 6th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Optic Nerve #13 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95
Zines & Zine-Related
Meta Zine: It’s a Zine About Zines by Davida Gypsy Brier $2.00 – A primer of sorts from the editor of Xerography Debt.
Brooklyn to Mars #4 by Markus Almond $8.00
My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon by Amber Pitt $5.00
Unfinished Lives by Elliott Junkyard $8.00
I Mirage/My Mirage #1 a Zine About Body Image – Jonas of Shut the Eff Up zine made 2 zine anthologies of different zinesters talking about body image. There’s also My Mirage I Mirage #2 a Zine About Body Image, because not everything would fit in one. It’s a double one-shot. Both are $3.00 each.
KerBloom #102 May Jun 13 by Artnoose $2.00
Very Very Edge by Alexander Stewart $4.00
Subp-A-Roht issues #1 and #2 by Logan Bay $2.00 each
Onsmith and Nudd Sac #1 by Paul Nudd and Jeremy Onsmith $20.00
Nudd Public Library vol 1 by Paul Nudd $5.00 – Paul Nudd’s illustrations that he offers as his take on book covers. How appropriate to be selling it here. Gleepy gloppy gloopy!
Vinyl Vagabonds issues #2-#4 by Sara and Eric Gordon $4.00 each
Acid Kat issues #7 and #8 $3.00 eachComics & Comix
Black Eye #2 by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press) $15.95
Lyra Hill comics: Possession Scenes #1 The Exorcist and Possession Scenes #2 Twin Peaks Episode 14 Lonely Souls $2.00 each, also Copulate $6.00
Jijijiji Mena Comics No I Do Not Imaging the After Life $6.00
Adventures of Vampire Kitty and Space Bat by Elliott Junkyard $5.00
Sanpaku #1 by Zoe Burke $5.00
Sky in Stereo #2 by Mardou $6.00
Thai Comic Horrors vol 2 by Logan Bay $3.00
Fall to the Tower by Ben Bertin $3.00
Eye In the Sky by Carrie Vinarsky $6.00
Klaus #1 by Richard Short $6.00
Runx Tales #3 by Matt Runkle $8.00
We Are Not White Lesbians by Nia King $5.00
Connecting by Nick Jankowski $3.00
Sauce #1 by Ben Bertin et al. $6.00
222 N Hillcrest by Rachel and Lorraine Swanson $2.00
Seasonal #3 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $4.00
Cosmouse #1 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Be the Love #2 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00
Andrew Jackson Throws a Punch an Inaugural Brawl by Andrea Tsurumi $10.00
Beach Girls Plus Dweeb by Box Brown et al. (Retrofit Comics) $6.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell (Top Shelf) $19.95
Sammy The Mouse Book 2 TPB by Zak Sally (Uncivilized) $15.00
Creepy Presents Steve Ditko $19.99
Last of the Mohicans: Ten Cent Manga by Shigeru Sugiura et al. (Picturebox) $22.95
Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Incidents in the Night Book 1 by David B. et al. (Uncivilized) $19.00
Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934 to 1972 by Willard Mullin et al. (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Amazing Facts and Beyond With Leon Beyond: The USS Catastrophe Library of Knowledge Encyclopedia Graphic Almanac Humor by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch (Uncivilized) $24.95
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
Over the Wall by PEter Wartman (Uncivilized) $14.95
Fiction
Momo by Michael Ende with illustrations by Marcel Dazama (McSweeney’s) $22.00
Static Station Lullaby by Amber Pitt $10.00
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher $14.95
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff $26.95
Welcome to Weltschmerz: A Bedroom Theater Memoir by Gabriel Chad Boyer $16.00Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders $26.99
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein’s True Creator by Scott Douglas de Hart (Feral House) $16.95
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn $27.50
Young Lovecraft vol 3 by Bartolo Torres and Jose Oliver $19.95
Rocks Off: 50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones by Bill Janovitz $25.99
What You Want Is In The Limo: On the Road with Led Zepplin, Alice Cooper and the Who in 1973, The Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born by Michael Walker $26.00
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
Follow For Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes by Roy Christopher $14.95 – Featuring interviews with the lieks of DJ Spooky, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Rushkoff, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Shepard Fairey, Dalek and more.
Eat a Bug Cookbook Revised by David George Gordon $16.99 – Real recipes. For real, for real.
Entheogens and the Developement of Culture: Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience by John A. Rush $27.95Politics & Revolution
The Afghanistan Picture Show or How I Saved the World by William T. Vollmann $16.95
Jobs With Justice: 25 Years 25 Voices by Eric Larson et al. (PM Press) $15.95Magazines
The Baffler #23 $12.00
Uppercase #18 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Incite issues #1-#3 Journal of Experimental Media $12.00 each
Made Quarterly Edition 2 $20.00
Toilet Paper Jun 13 $19.00
Dwell Sep 13 $5.99
True Crime Jul 13 $8.99
Flaunt #128 $10.95
Boneshaker Magazine #12 $12.00
Smith Journal #7 $17.99
Vaga #4 $15.00
Black Velvet #77 $9.00
Razorcake #75 $4.00
Mojo #237 Aug 13 $9.99
Vinyl Riot #5 Sum 13 $13.99
Decibel #107 Sep 13 $4.95
Tattoo Collection #57Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Boss by Victoria Chang (McSweeneys) $20.00
Necropastoral by Joyelle McSweeney $12.00
Core Sample by Gordon Massman $12.00
Midwestern Gothic #10 $12.00
Overtakelessness by Quick Dan Beachy $12.00
Conium Review vol 2 #2 Fall 13 $12.00Sex & Sexy
Teens At Play: End of Innocence by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99Other Stuff
Gravy Candy $6.00 – 12 pieces individually wrapped in a funny, fun tin. Tastes like, you guessed it.
Be Nice Or Leave Pencil Case $5.00
I Want Free Shit To Not Cost Anything Wet Wipes $4.00
Control Panel Zipper Pouch $6.00
Hey Bitches: I Was Just Thinking About You Wanna Bake Some Brownies Gum $1.40
Maybe You Touched Your Genitals Liquid Soap $9.50 – Fresh Meadow Scent!
Thanks For Holding Back My Hair Hand Sanitizer $5.50 – Kills Germs on Contact For Really Good Friends!
Random Crap From Here and There Pocket Box $6.00
Family Drugs Cigar Box $15.00
Coffee The Last Cheap Drug Coin Purse $4.00
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Laydeez Do Comics August edition 8/29 With Joyce Rice and Kat Leyh of Symbolia Magazine.
Guests will be Joyce Rice and Kat Leyh of Symbolia Magazine.
Symbolia is a tablet magazine of illustrated journalism that pairs incendiary reporting with thoughtful illustration and comics, the first digital journal solely dedicated to the form. Symbolia was founded by Erin Polgreen Joyce Rice. Deanna Zandt wrote for Forbes that, “Symbolia has accomplished two major feats: elevated the status of illustrated, sequential art as a form in a neglected space, and created a new space for us to reimagine what journalism can look – and feel – like.”
Speaker Bios:
Joyce Rice collaborates with artists to craft intriguing narratives that merge audio, animation, and hand illustration with high-quality journalism. A seasoned illustrator and interactive designer – and a specialist in sequential storytelling, interactive content and publication design – she’s cofounder and creative director of the digital magazine Symbolia. Joyce publishes comics and drawings in a variety of independent magazines and comics anthologies, and has been self-publishing an ongoing diary comic – Bird Wizards! – since 2008. Her work has appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, has been written about in FastCo., Poynter, and other outlets, and she has spoken about the intersection of comics and journalism at the Michigan State University Comics Forum.
Kat Leyh is a Chicago-based illustrator who somehow manages to draw for a living. When she’s not doing that, she creates comics for fun. A few of Leyh’s comics have been published by Yeti Press Comics, and you can view more of her work at www.KatLeyh.com.Laydeez do Comics is a unique salon with a focus on graphic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic, and the everyday. Invited guest speakers have 10-20 minute slots to present works/ideas followed by a Q&A. Launched in London in July 2009, the group has now expanded to other cities, including Chicago. Quimby’s hosts the Chicago chapter and it is usually the last Thursday of every month. For August the meeting is on Thurs, Aug 29th at 7pm.
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Offsite: On The Wall: Zine Art Meets Gallery Art at Strange Beauty Show
Come to Strange Beauty Show on Thursday, August 15th for this very special event co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore!
On The Wall: Zine Art Meets Gallery Art
at Strange Beauty Show
1118 N. Ashland Ave.
7-10pmThis very special event is the first collaboration between Quimby’s Bookstore and the salon/art space Strange Beauty Show. Curated by staff from both businesses, this group show features zine and comics artists, who will be showcasing pieces from their publications on the wall for display, and they will also have their periodicals avaiable for perusal and purchase.
Featuring work by Jami Sailor, Danielle Chenette, Lyra Hill and more!
Karaoke provided by Shameless Karaoke! (Click here for the song list.) Cocktails and nibbles!
Click here to find the event on Facebook.
*Please note this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at at Strange Beauty Show at 1118 N. Ashland Ave.
Strange Beauty Show is a place to experience artistic beauty in an upbeat yet laid-back environment. Come in and get a new creative haircut or color, view the work of local visual artists, and listen to a favorite song on vinyl; these elements all converge in one creative space at SBS. Also, see their Facebook page for updates of creative hair endeavors at SBS.
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International Zine Month Roundup!
In honor of the end of International Zine Month, we wanted to share some of our favorite zines and such from around the globe. Take a gander at some of the imports you can score on the shelves at Quimby’s.
Otso, Mari Ahokoivu, Finland, Bilingual (Finnish/English)
Finnish comic artist Mari Ahokoivu, details the existential journey of the titular bear (otso) in outer space. Things get pretty hairy, even for a bear, until the story comes to a rather beautiful celestial resolution. Ahokoivu’s drawings are infused with bright colorful swirls and a sense of fun, even with the subject matter gets dark. Most of the action takes place in the illustration. The sparsely applied written words are translated into her native Finnish from English.
Gang Bang Bong, Multiple artists, Canada/Mexico, Bilingual (Spanish/English)
Edited by Ines Estrada in Mexico and Ginette Lapalme in Toronto, this bilingual comic anthology is in its third installment. Gang Bang Bong started out more lo-fi but has become glossy, towing the line between zine and magazine. Inside you’ll find avant garde comics that tend to eschew the traditional panel storytelling form for more fluid narratives. GBB is a publication that straddles the lines of language and breaches the disconnect of North America’s two primary linguistic modes. And, on a lighter note, it’s full of fun, sometimes silly illustrations.
The Life and Times of Butch Dykes, Eloisa Aquino, Montreal Quebec, (English)
This series of mini-zines spotlights notable masculine lesbians around the world, including Chavela Vargas, JD Samson, Gladys Bentley, Gertrude Stein and Claude Cahun. Despite its Montreal-ness, Life and Times is written in English. Inside you’ll find a classy Spark Notes version of these women’s accomplishments, highlighting experiences of personal triumph, trauma and updates on their present day lives, (if they’re still living). Life and Times also features handsomely screen- printed covers.
School, Women and Japanese Culture, Multiple artists, Japan, (English)
Japanese journal School contains interviews, essays, photography and artwork reporting on the lives of women specifically, Japanese women generally. School examines the tension between ancient and modern cultures in Japan. Its sparse design and academic prose make for intellectually stimulating reading. Topics include relationship with sense of place, the existential implications of architecture, personal accounts of depression and an interview with singer Minako Yoshida.
Frontier, Uno Moralez, San Francisco by way of Russia
Frontier is the first analog release for Uno Moralez who works mainly in digital mediums. His haunting figure-based visions are set in the style of a pixilated video game screen. Moralez deals in visual archetypes of the Virgin Mary, sailors and femme fatales, among others. This comic is less narrative and more a dream-like stream of consciousness parade of catastrophic and sensual image associations. So far, two issues have been released.
You Won’t Find These International Zines In Our Webstore, But Rather, Our Brick and Mortar Store…Come on in to Quimby’s to check these out!
Word About Seeing Words Anything, Sergej Vutuc, San Jose, California by way of Germany
Photographer and visual artist Vutuc, who lives in Germany, made this zine as part of his show with Shawn Whisenant “Coincidence” at Seeing Things Gallery in San Jose California. Vutuc’s zine is a black-heavy collage that forms a photographic abstraction of his travels . He deals in shadow and light, splices of celluloid and hand scrawled musings. Word About Seeing Words Anything is a mixture between an exhibition catalog, small art book and portfolio of Vutuc’s work.
Chomp, Mitsu Sucks, Japan, Bilingual (English/Japanese)
When your cover features a dude wearing a Spurs hat and Black Flag t-shirt, you have has at least some affinity for the West, or just good taste. Chomp showcases queer street-culture from Japan with a heavy dosage of skater influence, mostly in the form of photography and illustration. Its tagline remarks “everyone is uncool!” but you’ll find plenty cool cats in this rag, not to mention penis drawings. Mitsu Sucks is the creative mastermind behind Chomp but its content features a rotating cast of artists, pals and photographers.
What Are You Collecting at the Moment Mark?, Mark Pawson, UK, (English)
Mark Pawson, British artist, writer and zine reviewer waxes whimsical on his stockpile of stuff. Akin to Eric Bartholomew’s Junk Drawer zine here in the states, Pawson catalogs objects and trinkets. And it’s pretty straightforward. The mini-zine lets readers flip through a pantheon of figurines, novelty mugs and household objects. It would also do you well to check out Mark’s website. It is incoherent and crazy in the best possible way.
You Can’t Find These International Zines at Quimby’s But They’re Still Awesome!
Koukijin-teki-Shaku: Japan, http://koukijinteki-shaku.blogspot.com/
Spill the Zine, UK Zine Review http://spillthezines.blogspot.com/
The Treasure Fleet, Minicomic, Germany http://www.treasure-fleet.com/
Tetanos, Abraham Diaz, Mexico http://gatosaurio.com/tetanos2.html
Did we forget anything? Share some of your picks with us.
–Article by our intrepid Quimby’s reporter and SPOC founder Nicki Yowell.
Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC) is a community organization for zinesters, artists, writers and any who publish.
